Marlowe 🦇

@marlowechris

Not the one who wrote Shakespeare. Writer, editor, explainer, fact-checker for hire: movies, music, technology.

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Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Jul 3

Created as a protest, Whitey Schafer's 1940 photograph 'Thou Shalt Not' depicts ten objects and concepts banned by the Hays Code

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Jun 28

Courtesy of www.instagram.com/peter.a.white/

Photo of comedian Peter White. Overlaid is a text quote from his performance a couple of years ago: "I think the golden rule for men should be - If you're a man, don't say anything to a woman on the street that you wouldn't want a man saying to you in prison."

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Jun 27

A lobby card for Frank Capra's screwball comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace", starring Cary Grant with a fantastic ensemble cast

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· May 18

Deputy judgement cat ready to be sworn in for duty

A black cat sitting in judgement atop a wooden file cabinet. If you're curious, on the wall behind is memorabilia related to the Beatles, Clapton, and Iggy & the Stooges

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· May 2

A self-aware building @pareidolia.bsky.social

A bright pink one-story building with two small arched windows disproportionately high on the wall and one rectangular window that looks like a door used to be there. Written in script are the words, "Hey pal, my eyes are up here"

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Apr 16

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) My cat:

A black cat sleeping contentedly on a sofa upholstered in a muted peacock feather print fabric. Both the cat and the sofa have lasted longer then the Confederacy

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Mar 12

Keith Richards once threatened to grab his knife and confront Donald Trump for trying to steal some of the Rolling Stones' spotlight web.archive.org/web/20160317...

Photo of a youngish Keith Richards, cigarette dangling from his mouth, posing with a guitar

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Jan 30

I did not know that many states have a program that lets seniors and/or disabled people defer paying their property taxes until the property is sold. This was a lifesaver for some people I know. Check your own state. Here's California's

Graphic shows not much information about California's property tax postponement program and suggests visiting ptp.sco.ca.gov or calling 800-952-5661 to learn more

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Jan 11

My computer speaker is distressed at what it's hearing @pareidolia.bsky.social

Photo is a closeup of a cheap computer speaker. The layout of knobs and random open space are reminiscent of a distressed face

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Dec 30

This is fun, thanks again

Photo shows a plaque at St Anne's Well Gardens in Hive, commemorating the site of George Albert Smith's film studio

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Dec 25

Baby bat dressed in a Santa-style red hat, trimmed in white, and a matching cape. It's being gently held by a bat rescuer in Australia

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Dec 1

Sunny, Suni, what's the difference. This has been up for two days and has not been corrected. Does ABC News have any editors left? abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Text mistakes Suni Muslims and instead declares them to be "sunny". It reads: "Leo made the appeal during a Mass on Saturday in Istanbul for Turkey’s tiny Catholic community, which numbers around 33,000 in a country of 85 million, mostly Sunny Muslims"

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Nov 27

A Redditor is mildly freaking out because a friend noticed the air fryer looks like a grinning face. Now the owner can't unsee it and finds it unsettling @pareidolia.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

Photo of a white air fryer on a wooden table. The placement of the controls and handle makes it look like the head of a plastic robot doing its best to please humans

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Nov 5

Photo shows a modern day Bonfire Night commemoration with costumed men preparing to burn an oversized effigy of Guy Fawkes

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Oct 31

Photo of a commercially released cassette tape of Bow Wow Wow's earworm single "C:30 C:60 C:90 Go!"

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Oct 25

AI generated image shows the White House with construction workers building a Death Star in place of the vaporized East Wing

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Sep 29

I tried to cheat on a crossword puzzle by asking DuckDuckGo's Search Assist AI to find five-letter character names in Shakespeare

Search Assist AI reply says:
Some five-letter Shakespeare character names in Clyde Aaron from "Titus Andronicus" and Balthazar from "Romeo and Juliet"

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Aug 17

Remembering the cultural icon Terence Stamp www.bbc.com/news/article...

An image from the 1962 movie "Billy Budd" showing Terence Stamp in the title role with Robert Ryan as the Master of Arms

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Jul 28

Let's use AI for research, shall we? Oh look, the actress Sarah Palmer who portrays #Gwengoolie on #Svengoolie also played roles that I could have sworn were played by Grace Zabriskie #TwinPeaks @richkoz.bsky.social

Screenshot from a DuckDuckGo search for the actress Sarah Palmer that conflates her with Grace Zabriskie, who portrayed the 'Twin Peaks' character Sarah Palmer

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Jul 12

Artwork shows Judge Dredd with the catchphrase "I am the law!" in giant red letters

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· May 4

Of course there is a relevant xkcd

Xkcd comic showing Palpatine, random guy, and Darth Vader

IT WAS I WHO ALLOWED THE ALLIANCE TO KNOW THE LOCATION OF THE SHIELD GENERATOR.

YOU MEAN "IT WAS ME." YOU'RE FOLLOWING AN ARCHAIC GRAMMAR RULE.

IT WAS ME WHO ALLOWED THE-

NO, MY MASTER, AN ARCHAIC TONE IS APPROPRIATE HERE. THE SENTENCE SOUNDS-

IT WAS I WHO ALLOWED-

COME ON, THE ACCUSATIVE CASE IS FINE. NOMINATIVE PRONOUNS ARE-

IT ME

1 I ALLOWED IT

MY MASTER,

PLEASE NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN.

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· May 4

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Apr 23

How i arrived on Bluesky

Photo of a black kitten ready for an imaginary fight. Credit https://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk/36537-black-kitten-frightened

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Mar 26

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Mar 24

Designer Jens Martin Skibsted is giving away free red baseball caps to help Greenlanders welcome Mrs. Vance and Mr. Waltz.

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Mar 14

Image shows a painting of Julius Caesar being assassinated. A text overlay says March 15 - Beware the Ides of March

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Mar 8

Pat Bag of The Bags, before she was Patricia Morrison. Pictured here in a linocut by Mark Vallen markvallen.com/product/pat-...

Linocut portrait of Pat Bag, later known as Patricia Morrison, by artist Mark Vallen

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Feb 26

Maybe not *favourite* but noteworthy. "The Hunger", Tony Scott's 1993 directorial debut, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon

Still from 1983 movie "The Hunger" showing Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Feb 26

A quote from Christopher Marlowe against a background of bookshelves:
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper, and
an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books
burned.
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus
Act II, scene 2

Marlowe 🦇@marlowechris· Feb 23